Ah, I might have misunderstood your previous comment about RDAP - I thought you were asking why we didn’t fetch this data from registrar RDAP implementations, s

Ah, I might have misunderstood your previous comment about RDAP - I thought you were asking why we didn’t fetch this data from registrar RDAP implementations, so my answer was in response to that. You may have been suggesting that we serve out our data from num.net using RDAP instead of DNS. In answer to that: NUM is a DNS-based protocol because every online organisation has access to DNS - it’s a standardised way for them to store and serve out data, they’ve already got it and already pay for it.